These artifacts shed light on, among other things, her sometimes devastating journey through psychoanalysis; her three marriages, to merchant marine James Dougherty, Yankee slugger Joe DiMaggio, and playwright Arthur Miller; and the mystery surrounding her tragic death at the age of Marilyn left the archive, along with all her personal effects, to her acting teacher Lee Strasberg, but it would take a decade for her estate to be settled.
It is, you might say, the house that Marilyn built. Several years after inheriting the collection, Anna Strasberg found two boxes containing the current archive, and she arranged for the contents to be published this fall around the world—in the U. Now at last we have an unfiltered look inside her mind. It took a lot of banging. I went over with the glass concealed in my hand and sat. Marilyn began taking private lessons with celebrated acting teacher Lee Strasberg in March , encouraged by the acclaimed theater and movie director Elia Kazan, with whom she had had an affair.
But he loved me for one year and once rocked me to sleep one night when I was in great anguish. He also suggested that I go into analysis and later wanted me to work with his teacher, Lee Strasberg.
She was living at the Gladstone Hotel, on 52nd Street off Park Avenue, when she began working with Strasberg and embarked upon the psychoanalysis that was de rigueur for taking classes at the Actors Studio. Throughout the late s and through much of the s and s, the Actors Studio was the most revered laboratory for stage actors in America. The more famous and the more successful these actors, the headier the taste of power for Lee.
He found his perfect victim-devotee in Marilyn Monroe. Most important, this archive, far more deeply than the Inez Melson collection, made public in V. The key players include Strasberg himself, her three psychiatrists—Dr. Margaret Hohenberg, Dr.
Marianne Kris, and Dr. Ralph Greenson—and her third husband, Arthur Miller, whom she confesses to loving body and soul, but by whom she ultimately felt betrayed. These poems, musings, dreams, and correspondence also touch on her great fear of displeasing others, her chronic lateness, and three of the biggest traumas of her shortened life: one buried in her past, and two that took place a few years after she began studying with Strasberg.
But they also reveal her growth both as an artist and a woman as she manages to cope with memories and disappointments that threatened to overwhelm her. In a five-and-a-half-page typed document, Marilyn looked back on her early marriage to James Dougherty, an intelligent, attractive man five years her senior. There were nearly two years when Marilyn was parked in an orphanage. Dougherty liked the idea of rescuing the shy, pretty girl, who left high school to marry him.
Not surprisingly, the union failed, and they divorced on September 13, She wrote,. My first impulse then was one of complete subjection humiliation, alonement to the male counterpart.
She then wonders if this exercise in memory and self-analysis is in fact good for her, writing:. For someone like me its wrong to go through thorough self analisis—I do it enough in thought generalities enough. Marilyn apparently began recording her thoughts around Two years prior, broke and desperate, she had posed nude for photographer Tom Kelley, for a calendar series.
She possessed a quality that seemed to trigger rescue fantasies in men and women alike, even before the sad details of her fractured childhood were completely known. In part, Marilyn knew that to cast herself as an orphan stirred up pity and empathy. By Christmas of , she was living in New York City. Encouraged by Strasberg, Marilyn began seeing Dr. Strasberg strongly believed that Marilyn needed to open up her unconscious and root through her troubled childhood, all in the service of her art.
Between her sessions with Strasberg and with Dr. Fonda explained on David Letterman's talk show that Monroe was an anxious young woman, who with today's therapy methods could undoubtedly have been better helped. Curtis, who Monroe starred alongside in "Some Like It Hot," told Larry King's talk show that the myth that others had built up had nothing to do with her real personality.
She was "very vulnerable, terribly needy, terribly distrustful," he said, later adding that Monroe was "mentally and physically ill. As for her reputation as Hollywood's greatest sex symbol. Many people have tried to reveal the diverse, multi-faceted person behind the facade that is Marilyn Monroe, and to deliver some justice and perhaps closure posthumously.
In the end, the different readings are just interpretations and projections about Monroe, a dazzling, now mythical figure, whose real self will won't ever fully be known. Her early death at the age of 36 brought her spectacular movie career to an abrupt end. But her legacy lives on. Visit the new DW website Take a look at the beta version of dw. Go to the new dw.
More info OK. Wrong language? Change it here DW. COM has chosen English as your language setting. COM in 30 languages. Deutsche Welle. Audiotrainer Deutschtrainer Die Bienenretter. I just think she was thrown into a nest of vipers. The cast had years of experience on the stage. But Gaynor had another, eerier memory of Monroe.
Even though she was a major star, Monroe continued working on her acting skills. In the mids she studied acting at the Actors Studio in New York. Oscar winner Martin Landau , who currently runs the Actors Studio West with director Mark Rydell, recalls being in class with Monroe at the studio along with some of the leading actors of the day, including Marlon Brando.
She was kind of docile, quiet and attentive. And remarkably gifted. She had demons. There were mood swings…". Her sexuality was as visible off-screen as it was on. Another Oscar winner,Louis Gossett Jr. She is the 20th century gift to making things up. Which does rather beg the question why? There were some good performances of course, Some Like it Hot and The Misfits, in particular, but wasn't she an actress who, at best, can be described as having a narrow range? For a while she may have been 20th Century Fox's most bankable star, but towards the end of her life, wasn't the studio sinking all its money into Liz Taylor in her role as Cleopatra?
I don't believe it. I don't think she could really carry more than a line or two at a time. And, as we all know, she was a pain to work with. Billy Wilder, who directed her in Some Like it Hot called her difficult, unpredictable and obstructive. She wasn't a Katharine Hepburn or a Meryl Streep.
She died at a certain age and it's horrible to say it, but early death can be a fantastic career move. This enormous, proliferating legend has gone on.
So as an emotionally troubled actress of middling ability, it does make you wonder, if she alive today would Monroe be any different to say Lindsay Lohan or any others of her ilk who are littering Hollywood today.
Lohan herself certainly sees parallels. She has one of Monroe's quotes tattooed on the inside of her wrist: "Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle" it says. Lohan also had her own Billy Wilder moment on the set of Georgia Rule when the producer, took the unprecedented step of writing her a letter complaining of her "bogus excuses" and "all night heavy partying. Whereas the originals show Monroe as still luminescent and beautiful, Lohan does little but draw attention to the dodgy tattoo she has on her bum.
The difference is probably all about timing. Our enduring obsession with Monroe owes much to the fact that she was working in an older, gentler world in an era before the media made it its business to get its nose into everything.
Unlike Lohan and other stars of today, who we get to see snorting coke, sporting alcohol-monitoring tags and wearing no knickers, we never witnessed anything like that with Monroe.
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